"Baby prefers formula instead of expressed milk in bottle. Help!"

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I've been supplementing my baby with formula since she was born. I recently started trying to feed her my expressed milk in a bottle since I will be going back to work. She cries and protests when I give her my expressed milk but settles down when I give her the formula. She has no problem drinking the expressed milk when she's very very sleepy. Also, my mother-in-law will be taking care of her for awhile and she gives in easily to my baby when my baby protests about the expressed milk so no help there from my mother-in-law. What should I do?


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"Continue to mix formular and the expressed milk - or go to formula"
 by awarulz on Apr 02 2008 (22 months ago)
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You and I know Mother's milk is great for the kids and is best - but, if you're going back to work, meybe it is time to go to formula. My wife and I did the thing - pumps and Fridges and the whole deal, but our son wanted more - and formula was it. Obviously, that is sweeter and that might be Baby's draw.

I looked around the web and don't see this expressed in any of the communities. Our son went to Formula and then, very soon to very soupy rice cereal -

today, he's quite a big boy and leaving my home :) So it WAS a while ago.
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"You could try mixing the formula with your expressed milk...."
 by luv2read on Apr 01 2008 (22 months ago)
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You just keep upping the milk to formula ratio until she is taking only expressed milk.  Also, have you tried someone else giving her the bottle of expressed milk.  My daughter wouldn't even take a bottle from me.  She would take it from my husband and my sister(who watched her when I returned to work).  If she continues to refuse the formula you could give her formula during the day and nurse at night.  Good luck, I hope it works out for you. 
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"try mixing and slowly shifting towards ebm"
 by bruingrad on Apr 06 2008 (22 months ago)
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It is common for a baby to be more cooperative about feeding preferences when sleepy.   And good for you for trying to move off of formula.  Try mixing the formula and expressed breast milk (ebm) in the bottle.  Start with more formula and then slowly shift the mix toward more EBM over time.  At the same time, you can try to increase your milk supply so that you will not need to use the formula at all if you are successful at moving her off the formula preference.  I have an article on increasing milk supply at http://breastfeeding.bellaonline.com. 

 

Best of luck with this!!!
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"Maybe you are eating spicy food. When I ate pizza, my kids cried from this breast milk. "
 by Shasha on Apr 01 2008 (22 months ago)
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Are you ever giving him fresh pumped EBM, or always frozen? Sometimes babies refuse, or begin to refuse frozen milk, because it can get a sour taste. I would try some fresh pumped milk and/or fresh mixed w/ formula and see if that makes a difference. If it does, you can hold on to your pumped supply and try to reintroduce it a couple weeks or months. Fresh milk will keep in the rridge at least 4-7 days, so you can do that on a rotation system. http://breastfeeding.bellaonline.com
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